How to Use aiPretendType

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How to Use aiPretendType and More: A Practical Guide

In this guide I will teach you how to use two commands: aiPretendType and killPretendType.

They're both incredibly simple commands, but are effectively arcana to us. Why?

Because nobody documented them, which I shall remedy.

aiPretendType

Let's start with this one. I want to make a recolored Green Laser.

[Green Laser]
aiStyle=1
alpha=255
friendly=True
height=4
light=0.75
magic=True
penetrate=3
scale=1.4
tileCollide=True
type=20
width=4

Blue Lazer Made by:Virtulox

Now that I've got that, I make a sprite. I won't cover that here. So now I change the type to -1 to allow it to use the sprite.

[Blue Laser]
aiStyle=1
alpha=255
friendly=True
height=4
light=0.75
magic=True
penetrate=3
scale=1.4
tileCollide=True
type=-1
width=4

But wait! Now it falls like an arrow ingame! Nothing but the type's changed. This is where aiPretendType comes in handy.

[Blue Laser]
aiStyle=1
aiPretendType=20
alpha=255
friendly=True
height=4
light=0.75
magic=True
penetrate=3
scale=1.4
tileCollide=True
type=-1
width=4

Now our Blue Laser shoots straight and true! Just use a projectile's Type entry in aiPretendType and it will copy its AI patterns.

killPretendType

What if I want to make that Magic Mining from the Projectile Class page's comments working? It sounded like a great idea!

[Magic Mining]
aiStyle=29
alpha=100
friendly=True
height=14
light=0.8
magic=True
penetrate=1
scale=1
tileCollide=True
aiPretendType=["Flamelash"]["Magic Mining"]["aiPretendType"]
type=-1
width=14

Now let's examine that. Now that we know how aiPretendType works, let's fix that aiPretendType line, and the non-existent aiStyle 29.

[Magic Mining]
aiStyle=9
alpha=100
friendly=True
height=14
light=0.8
magic=True
penetrate=1
scale=1
tileCollide=True
aiPretendType=34
type=-1
width=14

But wait! That doesn't explode at all! Now that's where killPretendType comes in.

[Magic Mining]
aiStyle=9
killPretendType=29
alpha=100
friendly=True
height=14
light=0.8
magic=True
penetrate=1
scale=1
tileCollide=True
aiPretendType=34
type=-1
width=14

Now that sunnova monkey explodes like a good ol' stick of Dynamite!

Afterword

I wrote this tutorial after seeing the lack of info on these two commands. I hope this has at least partially remedied that, and helped one or two people.

-ZI